Crossword for Sun, 14/Feb/2021

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Across
1: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

8: Gregorian chant emanates from unmelodious Anglo spin (9)

9: Famine, after resistance is eliminated, causes loss of life (5)

10: Fires possibly singe it (7)

11: Initially taking lumber off cart (7)

12: Photographers arrived with noodles (9)

14: City that cowboys used to avoid (5)

15: Dodgy queen is tender (5)

18: Metallic element forming excellent electrical connection (4,5)

21: Elmer Fudd's way of sneaking is doing the trick (7)

22: Anticipate warning cry about bearing (7)

23: Praises cricket ground in a speech (5)

24: Grown-up kids' tender hearts god broke? (9)

25: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)
Down
2: Man nuts about tin (7)

3: Treason destroyed Washington insider (7)

4: Go from right to left in 144, and shine (5)

5: One applying pressure to eight mixed up in back rent? (9)

6: Cleaning woman, embarrassed, is scarred by firing (7)

7: A cold fish embraces that woman's mortal weaknesses (8,5)

8: Charles talked about pictures of sea creatures (6,2,5)

9: Condemned without love, like the Vatican (5)

13: Sahl joke: House's last two loan agreements (9)

16: Recipe including bull's heart is first class (7)

17: War ultimately helps attacks (5)

19: Partially hear the noise coming from the ground (7)

20: Set aside a conservation area (7)

22: Not make it around first lash of whip (5)




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